Turbaria Quotes & Sayings

In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leaf-wilt or browning, or just didn't look quite as good as the others, and he would carry it around to all the other plants. "Say goodbye to your friend," he'd say to them. "He just couldn't cut it ... " Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant, and return an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot, which he would leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat. The plants were the most luxurious, verdant, and beautiful in London. Also the most terrified. — Terry Pratchett

A desert's a stupid place to put a river. — Paolo Bacigalupi

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham

Holy God, Holy light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it. — Ann M. Dibb

I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother. — Herman Cain

It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another. — Faith A. Colburn

All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst

By accepting fear in our life, we automatically allow it to rule over us — Sunday Adelaja

I hope none of them ask about my spring break. They went to Taipei, the Bahamas, Harry Potter World. I stayed in the hood and saw a cop kill my friend. — Angie Thomas

Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus. — Abhijit Naskar

the scent of her skin salty with sweat but sweet at the same time, like swimming through an ocean of roses. — Eve Jagger

Commonsense is the wick of the candle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips. — Richelle Mead